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Typefaces designed in the 1920s

3 typefaces first released in the 1920s, in order.

Typeface Year Designer Kind What it signals now
Cooper Black 1922 Oswald Bruce Cooper Display The 1970s, unmistakably. Soft, heavy, friendly, slightly stoned.
Futura 1927 Paul Renner Sans-serif Bauhaus modernism, and then anything wanting to look confident and geometric.
Gill Sans 1928 Eric Gill Sans-serif Britain, mid-century. Railways, the BBC, Penguin paperbacks.

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